Over the Threshold

OVERVIEWS 1. Christine Daniels--Intimate Violence, Now and Then 2. G. S. Rowe and Jack D. Marietta--Personal Violence in a Peaceable Kingdom: Pennsylvania, 1682-1801 3. Jacquelyn C. Miller--Governing the Passions: The Eighteenth-Century Quest for Domestic Harmony in Philadelphia's Middle-Class Households HUSBANDS, WIVES, AND LOVERS 4. Randolph A. Roth--Spousal Murder in Northern New England, 1776-1865 5. Edward E. Baptist--My Mind is to Drown You and Leave You Behind: 'Omie Wise', Intimate Violence, and Masculinity 6. Ed Hatton--He Murdered Her Because He Loved Her: Passion, Masculinity and Intimate Homicide in Antebellum America 7. Jenifer Banks--A New Home for Whom? Caroline Kirkland and Domestic Abuse on the Michigan Frontier 8. Stephanie Cole--Keeping the Peace: Domestic Assault and Private Prosecution in Antebellum Baltimore PARENTS AND CHILDREN 9. Merril D. Smith--Unnatural Mothers: Infanticide, Motherhood, and Class in the Mid-Atlantic, 1730-1830 10. James D. Rice--Laying Claim to Elizabeth Shoemaker: Family Violence on Baltimore's Waterfront, 1808-1812 11. Jeffrey H. Richards--Decorous Violence: Manners, Class, and Abuse in Rebecca Rush's Kelroy MASTERS, SERVANTS, AND SLAVES 12. Terri L. Snyder--As If There Were Not Master or Woman in the Land: Gender, Dependency, and Household Violence in Virginia, 1646-1720 13. Trevor Burnard--A Theater of Terror: Domestic Violence in Thomas Thistlewood's Jamaica, 1750-1786 14. T. Stephen Whitman--I Have Got the Gun and Will Do As I Please with Her: African-Americans and Violence in Maryland, 1782-1830 15. Christopher Morris--Within the Slave Cabin: Violence in Mississippi Slave Families Contributors' Biographies Index